Bose Solo TV sound system

[shaunsmith]

I'm looking to buy one of these for a bedroom don't really want a receiver or an amplifier or mega sound just something better that the Panasonic VT65 puts out. Are they any good?

Thanks

[dvs_dave]

They sound pretty decent for what they are on the demo stands in shops. For the price you could probably get a reasonable soundbar with sub which would probably sound better, but then they're not as neat and tidy.

[belleair302]

Look at the latest What Hifi for a guide on Soundboxes. Not a fan or the Bose myself, I think you can get better sound elsewhere for better value and a nicer looking piece of equipment too with more connections.

[oilslick]

I've had one for just under a year. It's a vast improvement over the sound from the TV but I'm still questioning whether it's £350 worth of improvement.

The Denon DHTT100 could be worth looking at, as well as being £100 less than the Bose it also supports Bluetooth streaming.

[shaunsmith]

Does the blu ray player plug into the Bose solo or is the sound for the player just in through the tele or is it unplug out of tele then into blu ray player?

[belleair302]

Usually these have one HDMI or an optical connection which is connected to the TV. The Bose has a single optical connection.

[oilslick]

It also has a coax digital connection plus an analogue RCA connection.

I've got mine connected through optical from the optical out on the TV.

Haven't experienced any lip-sync issues from any of TV, DVD, BluRay or my Raspberry Pi media centre.

[Sleepers]

I know this thread is a few days old...

Recently bought a Bose Solo as I thought it would be a neater and better sounding solution to my Creative T20 computer speakers connected to the telly and having some Bose stuff in the past I was really looking forward to it.

Well I sent it back for a full refund as the sound was weedy, thin, no bass, flat sounding and the treble gave me a sore head. It seems to be well made but the sound quality was beyond carp. Plus you have to use the supplied remote to adjust the volume...

Bose did offer to do a firmware update to improve the sound...!? For the life of me I could not see how a firmware update could make it remotely sound anywhere as good as the T20 which for what they cost exceed my expectations. Indeed all the video mixing desks at work use the Creative T20s and they are fussy gits...

Cheers

[shaunsmith]

Bought a Solo yesterday, crikey I'm blown away its absolutely superb, immediately put Rush on & did a comparable sound test with the VT65 at high similar volume it was black & white. Tele sound is shockingly crap in comparison. Sky Sports is now super too. Base is bang on & the pre set treble too with great depth all-round.

However, it is in a bedroom although not small 5.00 x 4.00 the system is central so is perfect for what I require, if in a larger room perhaps would fall short to an amplified speaker system. For 350 quid, no amp or cables, non additional speakers around, looks nice, not under Tele. I'm more than happy

Thanks for reply's everyone

[Sleepers]

That's great it works for, I so wanted it to work for me too Perhaps my room was just to big...

[shaunsmith]

Sleepers said:

That's great it works for, I so wanted it to work for me too Perhaps my room was just to big...

Perhaps yours was faulty, the Bose shop did mention this was a new type or something during the demo, wasn't really paying attention, pretty big shop. After reading your post last night I was a bit bewildered or puzzled
Yeah, maybe yours is too big a room

[grumpyscot]

I got one for Xmas - and sent it back. Sound was awful (no base, too much treble) and much worse than my Panasonic surround sound which I got it t replace. First Bose product I've ever been disappointed with.

[rhinochopig]

As an experiment I tried connecting our Zeppelin to our new LCD tv as the sound on the tv is very thin.

I have to say, it works really really well - despite simply being connected via a 3.5mm cable - and as a bonus it's also a very decent small form factor hi-fi.

Can't go wrong for 300 quid.

[shaunsmith]

grumpyscot said:

I got one for Xmas - and sent it back. Sound was awful (no base, too much treble) and much worse than my Panasonic surround sound which I got it t replace. First Bose product I've ever been disappointed with.

Bose must have rectified the said issues as the demo we had was superb, otherwise no way I would have bought one plus I'm particular with sound systems whether in a car or at home. If it was crap yeah would not of bought one & condemned it in the Bose shop there n then...
I went specially to the Bose shop to make sure it was appropriate & sounded like I expected it would or should.